Question

posted by sgtpepper12880
4 years ago
A bunch of ads have been appearing in my firefox browser; when I view the same page with other browsers they do not appear.

I can provide a screenshot to help illustrate my problem. Every page I load has numerous ad boxes embedded into the page from "Ads by Browse to Save". Does anyone else have this problem? Is this something that firefox added to their browser or do I have a malware problem? (I see no option to post a screenshot of the problem, as is advised on the community help homepage. Maybe I will have that option once my question is posted.)

Thank you for installing the Troubleshooting extension that gathered that information. In the old days, we would be asking you to poke around on your own and this made it much easier to resolve it quickly.

I have also been getting these unwanted ads. I went to "Add-ons manager" in Firefox where I found about ten add-ons. First I disabled all of the add-ons, and went to a page where the ads had appeared; The ads were now gone. Next, I enabled each add-on, one at a time, until the ads re-appeared on that page. I assumed that this last add-on was the culprit. I alternately disabled and enabled this add-on to verify that it was the only one that caused the ads to appear. The only add-on that caused the ads to appear in my Firefox browser ver. 22.0 was "Shockwave Flash ver. 11.7.700.224".

Thanks for the suggestion. I had only checked for ads that appeared in news articles on BBC.com. I re-enabled Shock Wave flash, went to extensions and "disabled" all of them that gave me the option. The ads returned. I guess I'll just keep Flash disabled until I run up against an application that needs it.

I tried the extension link from Toolbar and disabled one extension found there. Then I went to a website where these ads/boxes have been appearing and sure enough...there they are. they make one absolutely batty and I'm desperate to be rid of them! I'm going to try to post a screen shot of them. Red boxes are mine added in photo editing software. Disabling Shock wave flash did nothing to eliminate these irritating boxes.